Key adviser claims Elton John will play at Trump’s inauguration

nypost ^ | 11/23 | halper

[RummyChick]

Elton John will perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration, claimed a key adviser, who championed the billionaire as the first president ever to enter the White House with a “pro-gay rights” stance.

“Elton John is going to be doing our concert on the mall for Inauguration,” Anthony Scaramucci, a member of the presidential transition team executive committee as well as a vice chair of the presidential inaugural committee, told BBC’s “HARDtalk.”

[pugmama]

We saw him last year. His voice is almost gone. He talked through some of the songs. But he sure can play that piano.

[apillar]

I'm kind-of interested to see what the inauguration is going to be like. People forget that Trump was an A-list entertainer before he ever entered politics and put on huge productions like Miss Universe all the time. I'm guessing he's going to have an inauguration extravaganza that will put anything the democrats have done to shame.

[Jane Austen]

That job should go to a patriotic American.

[srmorton]

DJT and I are of the same generation and grew up liking Elton John's music before we began to delve in everyone's sexual orientation. I am a Southern girl who loves “Beach Music” but country - not so much!

[A CA Guy]

Yeah, he played Rush’s wedding for $1,000,000.00.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Sir Elton will back off after a few days of social media pummeling at the hands of his oh-so-tolerant Liberal friends.

[Lisbon1940]

Country is uniquely American music, but you don’t need all the makeup and amplification. Just grandpa with a fiddle on the back porch or with a bluegrass quartet.

[Emergencyawesome]

The Inauguration party is being run by Trump’s friends in Vegas. I think Elton John still has a show there

[JudyinCanada]

Yes. The job should go to an American group.

[tomkat]

..whatever they use to sell music these days

LOL .. hello, fellow dinosaur   ;-)

[Old Yeller]

I’d rather see Charlie Daniels.

[arl295]

Has he done that before?

Just curious

Because he is being hired to perform, not spew his political view

[TruthFactor]

Elton John will be just one of several acts performing at the inauguration. His politics are right of center and is a friend of Rush’s.

[tomkat]

'Daniel' had been the most misinterpreted song that we'd ever written," explained Taupin, in the Two Rooms tribute project.
The story was about a guy that went back to a small town in Texas, returning from the Vietnam War.
They'd lauded him when he came home and treated him like a hero.
But, he just wanted to go home, go back to the farm, and try to get back to the life that he'd led before.
I wanted to write something that was sympathetic to the people that came home.

source

[Salvavida]

Casting Crowns. Make the liberals’ heads explode with worship music.

[tomkat]

+1

[dp0622]

Wow. Never read that.

What I DO wonder is what the last paragraph that Elton John deleted said.

The writer said he doesn’t recall and doesn’t have a copy.

I HOPE it wasn’t because it was patriotic that Elton took it out.

[VanDeKoik]

I suppose I’d have to be the one to say this, but can we stop acting like country music = ultra American patriotic?

I’ve seen more than enough of those guys spout leftist crap to really care to have an inauguration concert consists of the CMAs just because they have a thick country twang.

[dp0622]

Now I’m depressed. Love that song but breaks my heart for the vets.

[tomkat]

I HOPE it wasn’t because it was patriotic that Elton took it out.

Given the reported basis of the song given in the Wiki cite, I'd tend to doubt it .. would seem kinda contradictory, ehh ?